Gigi Edgley in FHM Australia, 12/03
In the pantheon of men's fantasies, the petit blonde holds a special place and here's one of the finest examples of her kind. She's fit, she sets the camera on fire and she's been close enough to Marcel Marceau to smell vodka on his breath. Gentlemen, we bring you the delightful, the effervescent and always interesting Gigi Edgley...
FHM
Congratulations for being the most expensive shoot FHM has done all year...
GIGI
[Squeals with laughter] Because of the massive amount of lingerie I had to
wear?
FHM
No, you stained that ostrich-skin couch worth $9,000 and we had to fork out
for it.
GIGI
Oops, sorry. I was so lubed that it was tricky to even sit on the thing let
alone rubbing off it ha, ha.
FHM
No bother. You're the first Gigi FHM's ever featured - where's it come from?
GIGI
Well, everyone thought I was going to be a boy so my name was Bruce for quite
a while. Anyway, I was screaming in the back of the car one day and that song
from [the movie Gigi] Thank Heavens For Little Girls came on, I went silent,
and became Gigi.
FHM
And with the Spring racing carnival in full swing, a girl with a name like
yours is perfect for this month's cover.
GIGI
It gets me quite a bit of attention, when my girlfriend and I went to Mexico.
We where on the beach
and she was calling "Gigi! Gigi!" and everyone was laughing their
heads off - turns out that it sounds like the slang word for "tits".
So she was yelling out "Tits! Tits!" And every male on the beach
was going, "All right then!" Welcome to Mexico.
FHM
We did a Google search
on you and their were 12,300 sites with you in it. That's a lot of computer
geeks with a crush on you...
GIGI
Yeah, it's cool and bizarre. That'll be the Farscape effect.
FHM
You mean that muppets-go-sci-fi show?
GIGI
Yeah it's a Jim Henson production and is unbelievable to work on. On a usual
day in the lunch room, [laughs] there's tentacles going in all the wrong places,
spaghetti flying around the place and aliens having deep and meaningfuls.
FHM
So,
how do you fit into it?
GIGI
I'm Chiana, a Nabari alien. I'm basically a space trollop with a good heart.
FHM
Do
you flirt with the muppets?
GIGI
Oh yeah, there's nothing better than having six puppeteers sitting in your crotch
[laughs]. My typical day is getting up at 4am, get made-up for three-and-a-half
hours, do a fight scene, a lovemaking scene, run from a few fireballs, then lunch.
FHM
Excellently,
you have your own action figure - the Chiana doll...
GIGI
Yeah! It means I can play
with myself anytime! And no, not in that way.
FHM
How anatomically correct is
it?
GIGI
It has perfect measurements. They may not be mine, but I reckon they're perfect.
When they called up to get my proportions I said "You know that new Gucci
model," I'm about as tall as you and my breast size is... ah 10Z. They said, "Bras
don't
go up to that size." How would I know - I never usually
wear one.
FHM
In Secret Life Of Us, Farscape and Beastmaster, you've had a run of on-screen
minxes...
GIGI
Yeah, I've had a really juicy run of characters - the best was in Water Rats
being Maggie
Fitzpatrick's sugar girl. I had to play a little strumpet that she picked up
off the street.
FHM
You mean The Freak in Prisoner?
GIGI
That's the one!
FHM
Let's go back to your chilhood. Your dad's Michael Edgley, who brought the
big names to Oz: Torvill and Dean, Sesame Street, the Three Tenors, the Harlem
Globe Trotters. Breakfast at your place must have been interesting.
GIGI
Yep, [laughs] I was teaching Marcel Marceau a couple of moves when I was three...
Ace! Yeah, I was so scared, he had this peculiar smell, like vodka... And one
time I woke up in a fireman's arms. I was about five years old. Dad had brought
out the Moscow Circus, there were a few dodgy dealings, and somebody had blown
up our car - the one that was taking us to school. We had a lot of adventures
and a couple of close brushes.
FHM
So what you been up to now?
GIGI
Making music.
FHM
Argh! Not another actress gone pop...
GIGI
No, it's not like that! It's very low key and non-commercial, it's not even
really a single - more of
a six-minute narrative soundscape extravaganza that started out as a one-night
jam session with a mate in Cronulla. It's called Poison it's set in a psych
ward and is a Massive Attack-y, Portishead-sy kinda vibe with a magpie thrown
in.
FIN